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A contrarian yet highly engaging account of the spread of illiberal and anti-democratic sentiment throughout our culture that places responsibility on the citizens themselves.Over the past three decades, citizens of democracies who claim to value freedom, tolerance, and the rule of law have increasingly embraced illiberal politicians and platforms. Democracy is in trouble--but who is really to blame?In Our Own Worst Enemy, Tom Nichols challenges the current depictions of the rise of illiberal and anti-democratic movements in the United States and elsewhere as the result of the deprivations of globalization or the malign decisions of elites. Rather, he places the blame for the rise of illiberalism on the people themselves. Nichols traces the illiberalism of the 21st century to the growth of unchecked narcissism, rising standards of living, global peace, and a resistance to change. Ordinary citizens, laden with grievances, have joined forces with political entrepreneurs who thrive on the creation of rage rather than on the encouragement of civic virtue and democratic cooperation. While it will be difficult, Nichols argues that we need to defend democracy by resurrecting the virtues of altruism, compromise, stoicism, and cooperation--and by recognizing how good we've actually had it in the modern world.Trenchant, contrarian, and highly engaging, Our Own Worst Enemy reframes the debate about how democracies have ended up in this dire state of affairs and what to do about it.

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A few years ago Tom Nichols wrote The Death of Expertise and as he debated his subject, people rejecting established knowledge for their own crackpot conspiracies and other bits of misinformation, he realized the topic addressed a deeper issue: The death of democracy itself, a subject he expands with great cogent power in his book Our Own Worst Enemy. Even the pandemic and its relatively high mortality rate did nothing to cause the masses to repent of their intellectual sins and bow to science. We no longer agree to abide by a code of credible knowledge, that Jonathan Rauch coins in his book published around the same time as Our Own Worst Enemy, The Constitution of Knowledge. Both Nichols and Rauch have written books touching on an important event: The death of liberal democracy and the rise of illiberalism and authoritarianism, which rests on nihilism, conspiracies, misinformation, and a type of propaganda that says, “Everything is possible; therefore, nothing is true.” The previous quote is a popular adage from Soviet Russia and is still used in Putin’s Russia, something that Nichols, someone who studies Soviet history, knows of well.The pandemic has not brought many people to science just as the Capitol January 6 Riot has done nothing to unify Americans against an insurrection that happened before our very eyes. Thanks to conspiracy mongers, the riot can be attributed to lefty forces and other crackpot notions.So what, according to Nichols, is the enemy within? It’s not one thing. Yes, it’s defying credible knowledge with misinformation, but it’s also grievance and victimization that would compel many to seek a savior in the form of a demagogue like Donald Trump. It’s also narcissism, which makes people confuse “freedom” with “I get to do and believe anything I want,” even if such actions and beliefs hurt others, as we see in the anti-vaxxers during the pandemic. It is also nihilism, the compulsion “to burn it all down” and depend on a cult-like savior, rather than expertise and self-determinism, to take America to the Promised Land.Additionally, a country with inflated expectations and has acclimated to its materialistic abundance (“hedonic adaptation”) suffers from anger, bitterness, and distrust of each other, and these things, too, create a cancer that erodes democracy.Yet another enemy within is the kind of boredom that sets in as a result from a lack of meaning and higher purpose. Empty, lonely, and bored, these individuals are drawn to the inane words of demagogic autocrats such as Trump.As professor Nichols presents his diagnosis of the collective American character, we get a very ugly albeit accurate description: a slovenly, resentful, narcissistic, ignorant, “unserious” person who is incapable of holding up democracy.The good news, and the reason Nichols has written this book, is that there are enough good, decent, smart Americans to turn America to the right course if we listen to the experts who point to the way. Nichols has made a persuasive case that he is such an expert.Readers of Nichol’s important, well-written book will want to read the aforementioned The Constitution of Knowledge by Jonathan Rauch and The Road to Unfreedom by Timothy Snyder.

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